Akbar Padamsee, Indian, 1928 to 2020, acrylic painting on canvas depicting a Surreal portrait in a landscape. Siugned upper left. Akbar Padamsee is a Contemporary artist, known for Painting, film making, sculpture, photography and printmaking. He received his diploma from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, in 1951. He lives and works in Mumbai, India. He is a painter, film maker, sculptor, photographer, engraver, and lithographer. As a member of many artistic committees, he took part in the development of the collections of the Bharat Bhavan museum of Bhopal, and created the VIEW, Vision Exchange Workshop. He curated major cultural events and received many distinctions such as the Padmashri in 2009. His work is introspective; his Metascapes or his Mirror Images are abstract images formed from the search for a formal logic. His topics include landscapes, nudes, heads and he has done portraits created in pencil and charcoal. The depth which emerges from his oil based works, emanates from the colored matter. This creates a pictorial technique juxtaposing emerging split forms. He has done, in addition to his painted work, black and white photographs which use light to create dimension. Padamsee always explored new plastic genres; he also created SYZYGY, Events in a Cloud Chamber, films shot in 1970, and explored computers in Compugraphics. One of a kind artwork.